Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-22
TRIBUTES TO WOMEN.
Gems From the Poets, Prenchefs
md Sages of MANY Lnnds.


nnd snges Of Many Lands.
Confucius-Woman is the masterpiece.
Herder--W oman is the crown OF ere.
alton.
Richter-No man can live piously
without wife.
Voltaire--Women teach us repose,
civility and dignity.
Lessipg- Nature meant to make woman
its masterpiece.
Ruskin-Shakespea has no heroes
he has only heroines.
Whittier--If woman lost us Eden,
such as she alone restores it.
John Quincy Adams--All that l am,
my mother made me.
Gladstonc-Woman is the most per.
feet when the most womanly.
Cabanis-In wishing to extend her
empire, woman destroys it.
E, s. Barrett-Woman is LIST at the
cross and earliest at the grave.
Boucicault-I wish Adam had died
with all his ribs in his body.
Saadi-A handsome woman is a jewel;
q good woman is treasure.
Lamartine-There is a woman at the
beginning of all great things.
Bulwer-To gentleman, every wo.
man is lady in right of her sex.
Victor Hugo-Wom detest the ser.
pent through professional jealousy.
Cowley-What is woman! Only
one of natures agreeable blunders.
Rochefoucauld-A fashionable woman
is always in love wi h herself.
Shakespeare-T YVES never fair
woman but she mouths in glass.
Francis Ia woman changes oft;
who trusts her is the softest of the soft
N. p. Willis-The sweetest thing in
life is the unclouded welcome of wife.
Ceryaptes All women are good
good for nothing or good for something.
George Eliot-A passionate woman's
love is always overshadowed by her fear.
Heine-Handsome women without re-
lioion are like flowers without perfume.
Cervantes--Between q wonan's Y es
and No would not venture to stick o
Voltaire-All the reasonings of men
are not worth one sentiment OF woman.
Beecher-Women are new race, re-
created since the world received Chris.
tianity.
Leopold Schefer--But one thing on
earth is better than the wife-that is the
mother.
Luther-Earth has nothing more ten.
der than a woman's heart when it is the
abode Of pity.
Sbakespeare-Fo where is any author
in the world teaches auch beauty as q
woman's eyes?
Michelet-Woman is the Sunday OF
man; not his repose only, but his joy,
the salt of his life.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli- Woman is
born for love, and it is impossible to
turn her from seekingit.
Louis Desnoyers-A woman may be
ugly, ill.shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly
and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous.
Lord Lonsdale-If the whole world
were put into one scale and my mother
into the other, the world would kick the
beam.
Malherbe--There are only two beau
tiful things in the world-women and
roses; and only two sweet things--wo.
men and melons.
Bulwer-Lytton-O, woman! in ordi.
nary cares so mere mortal. how In the
great and rare events of Life dost thou
swell into the angels!
Saville-Wo Women have more strength
in their looks than we have in our laws,
and more power by their tears than we
have by our arguments.
Emerson-A beautiful woman is a
practical poet; tanning her savage mate.
planting tenderness, hope and eloquence
in all whom she approaches.
Anna Cora Mowatt - Misfortune
sprinkles ashes on the heart of the man,
but falls like dew on the head of the
woman and brings forth germs oi
strength of which she herself has nc
conscious possession.
Undergraduates all women will
give ympathizing hearing to mel
who are in love. Be they ever so old
they grow young again in that conver
sation, and renew their own early time
Men are not quite so generous.